Research group

Responsible IT

Projects

- M-DPP-Digital passports for traceable fashion
  1 October 2025 - 30 September 2027
  What’s really in your clothes? Where do they come from? And how can you tell if they were produced sustainably? These are the key questions of the Molecular Digital Physi...
- SAISMO: An open-source AI infrastructure for public media
  1 September 2026 - 31 August 2028
  Public media organisations are using AI more and more for tasks such as transcription, translation, text generation and content recommendations. However, the available AI...
- Digital Autonomy that fits: AI autonomy for news media
  1 September 2026 - 31 August 2028
  Media outlets are increasingly using AI tools and cloud infrastructures developed by a small number of, mainly American, technology companies. This dependence affects one...
- Public Relations & AI: the ethically responsible use of generative AI by municipalities
  1 September 2026 - 31 August 2028
  Generative AI is increasingly finding its way into public services. Local authorities are exploring how applications such as chatbots can contribute to better service del...
- Generative AI Agent(s) for policy officers
  1 June 2025 - 31 January 2026
  The fast rise of generative AI (genAI) and autonomous AI agents is totally changing how digital services are designed and experienced. Designers and developers of digital...
- Verhaal Speciaal: Breaking the Cycle of Low Literacy with AI
  23 May 2024 - 31 December 2024
  Low literacy is a major societal challenge in the Netherlands: 2.5 million people over the age of 16 struggle with reading, writing, or arithmetic. This issue is often pa...
- Making Government Texts More Readable with AI
  23 May 2024 - 31 August 2026
  In this project, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) collaborates with various partners, including municipalities, to explore whether and how AI can be res...
- AI and Media: Collaborating for a Stronger Democracy
  1 January 2023 - 31 December 2024
  The rise of large-scale language models and other AI-driven technologies has raised critical societal questions about the use of artificial intelligence in media. The AI,...
- Building for Well-Being
  1 January 2022 - 15 June 2022
  How to address the housing shortage while at the same time boosting the well-being of urban residents? This is the question Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS...